Abstract
We report the measurement of charged mesons in inclusive jets produced in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy with the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. For mesons with fractional momenta in inclusive jets with 11.5 GeV mean transverse energy, the production rate is found to be . This rate is consistent with perturbative QCD evaluation of gluon splitting into a pair of charm quarks and subsequent hadronization.
- Received 6 January 2009
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.79.112006
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